constanttrek

Calais

August 14th, 2004

Apologies for the short post in Dover, we were in a bit of a hurry. But we made the ferry and left England in the same state it was when we arrived – raining. Arrived in Calais yesterday and treated ourselves to a night in a proper bed, which was greatly appreciated at the time.
Thanks to everyone who has posted comments on the site and emailed us, it is fantastic to open the site up and find your messages. Thankyou also to Jeromy, Daniela and Julian for driving all the way down to Dover to see us off – it was lovely to see you all and we eagerly await the post from Wynton which I feel sure will appear one day soon…

We are resting for a couple of days as the feet are a touch mashed. After that we will follow the coast down for a few weeks before heading inland, and hopefully have a few days break on a beach somewhere.

The last couple of days into Dover were quite taxing but absolutely beautiful. We spent one night in a field kindly loaned to us by a farmer called Col – bless him – next to a fully stocked trout breeding pond. The sound effects were quite amusing, as every few minutes a trout would leap out at the incoming piped water, thinking it was heading upstream. Obviously as a result of high trout suicide numbers Col had placed a bit of sheet metal at the end of the pond, so that when the fish leapt out they would slam into it and fall back into the water. Hence our night was punctuated by the dull thud of land-bound trout and the subsequent “plop” as they re-entered the water. It was a lovely spot though, and pretty good for £4 a night!
Despite our best efforts the packs have not got any lighter, so I guess we are just going to have to cop them sweet. We are using absolutely everything in them, and at this stage can’t see what we could get rid of. Hopefully soon we will discover we somehow magically need less. We do keep discovering new necessities – for example we finally succumbed to the olive oil purchase today. Well, life was just not life without it!
We are working on getting some photos up – will try to sort it today. Should post again in about a week.

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